@QuestionAuthority: Oh no, of course I don’t take it seriously. I was just struck by how morbid that quote is. “Hey, since you were born a Virgo, you’re more likely to hang yourself!” How creepy and wrong.

How can McCain claim “I am uniquely qualified to lead our nation during this technological revolution.” when he doesn’t even know how to use a PC? Or is he saying that’s the reason he’s qualified? From the first comment on the blog: “…And apparently his Navy days were the high water mark for McCain’s relationship with technology. The man doesn’t use a computer or the internet.”

The wireless spectrum policy has been derided as a massive giveaway to industry.

He will “eliminate wasteful earmarks.” That’s nice, but those are only a few percent of the Federal budget. What about the other 95% or so of the budget?

I’m not in love with either candidate, to be honest. Once again this November, I’m going to have to vote for the candidate that I think will do the least damage to our country. This sucks, especially when I remind myself that a democratic republic gets the government it deserves.

There is, of course a Jupiter Return, but this had nothing to do with Wallace’s death. To ridicule something that you know nothing about it what is sad and a bit creepy as well.

The point of the article about Wallace is that we have our choices, which are influenced by various factors, but they are our choices non-the-less.

The point about the statistical study quote by Astrology Weekly is that among those who commit suicide, the zodiac sign of Virgo was show to be statistically significant. This is important in that many statistical studies of zodiac signs do not show statistical relevance by the zodiac sign itself. It does not mean that anyone with a significant Virgo signature is prone to suicide.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but isn’t skepticism supposed to be a healthy examination of the facts rather than dismissing information without examination?

Thereâ€™s a big difference between â€œbeing born in a summer month is correlated with a higher suicide rateâ€ and â€œbeing a Virgo causes you to be more likely to hang yourself.â€

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That is not what I said. Read my comment again. Among people who commit suicide (a very small portion of the population), according to that one study, the sign of Virgo was correlated with a higher rate of suicide.

Why would this be? We don’t know why. I don’t have the data set for this study, the ages of the people involved, the nation in which is was conducted (believe it or not the birth patterns of signs vary from nation to nation) or a whole handful of variables.

Let’s take another study, one that I did of serial killers. Out of the data set of thirty people, Capricorn was the most frequent sign. Does this mean that all Capricorn’s are serial killers. Of course not. And let’s take it a step further, the study is only from serial killers that were caught. We don’t know about the ones who weren’t. I wasn’t making a sweeping generalization and I am a little dismayed that a supposedly intelligent group of people keep parroting it.

I was simultaneously attempting to lampoon the general idea that the rules of astrology have any control over a person’s ultimate destiny while also lampooning myself by betraying my own lack of knowledge on the subject.

That said, yes, I should not ridicule stuff I don’t understand, and I don’t mean to make light of the tragedy of D. Foster Wallace’s death, or anyone else’s.

Well, with this administration’s current view of utter anti-science, I’m more inclined to throw my dice with Obama simply because he does not oppose stem cell research, and because he is willing to listen to people like Al Gore when it comes down to money vs environmental progress. I’m sure they both had other people write their answers to all of those questions, and if they themselves were asked to even repeat what they ‘said’ would completely fail.